With the Manufacturing Performance Management module of Stratum, you can improve service levels, reduce overtime costs, and utilize capacity more effectively by analyzing forecasts, orders, capacity and lead times with summarized and detailed information on utilization, productivity, efficiency and manufacturing performance.
Production Operations
Access pertinent day-to-day operational information to ensure that you can accommodate
customer demand and that resources are optimally utilized. Evaluate scheduled
production and Work In Process (WIP) alongside of open work orders to gain an
accurate picture of total production operations. Gain visibility into open customer
orders, forecasts and inventory levels by integrating with the Stratum Sales Performance
Management module to ensure that open work orders are satisfying demand and that
you are not building inventory unnecessarily.
Production Variances
Analyze material cost over time to determine trends and identify areas of concern.
Monitor material usage (quantity) variances by plant, department or work center
to determine causes of inconsistency. Determine if labor rate variances are increasing
and why -- for instance, are actual labor rates and hours increasing or are standards
unrealistic. View variances at the plant level and drill to individual departments
and shifts to analyze areas of concern. Compare actual and standard hours across
plants and departments to determine where labor efficiency variances exist. View
all variances over a period of time to identify, at a glance, which ones are showing
improvement and which ones require more attention
Production Execution Performance
Better understand your production execution performance and profitability in the
areas of downtime, scrap, performance to schedule, production variance, standard
utilization, efficiency, and productivity. Gain a single view, or scorecard, or
production performance by plant, department, work center, and machine. Leverage
the information you glean to improve future performance and profitability in all
of your production execution areas. Examples of the analyses available in this
application include: Production Quality, Performance to Schedule, Labor Productivity,
Machine Productivity, Labor Efficiency, Effective Output, Labor Utilization, Machine
Utilization, Machine Efficiency, Machine Output, Scrap Analysis, Total Cost Variance,
Labor Cost Variance, Material Cost Variance, Overhead Cost Variance, Production
Content, Work in Process and Scheduling Efficiency.
